Molten
Saint Cloche, Sydney
13 - 24 April 2023

Molten is an exploration of worlds within worlds and sinking deep into one’s imagination. It draws from a collection of personal experiences in which my propensity to daydream has transformed banal moments into extravagant narratives. It follows my journey down familiar streets, at familiar tables, and in familiar scenes all made new by an imaginative mind.

Whilst the series is grounded in still life, the paintings err on the side of Abstraction, illustrating the translation of the real-world landscape into the manipulations of the mind. The painted objects are the catalyst for the imaginative narrative whilst the abstraction – the colours, textures, the movement – exist to represent the transition from the real to the imagined. It is to illustrate the ways in which the brain pulls an object into a reality of one’s own where everything is slightly askew, colours are not quite right, scale is manipulated; much like a dreamscape.

The detail is not lost in rumination but replaced with fragments of other memories and guesstimates of the mind. There are interventions of light throughout the dreamscapes of hidden naturalism, streaming across uniformly, as though sprawled across a table, or in harsh bursts as seen through a reflection or the corner of a window.